Watched Vincent Minnelli’s “The Bad and the Beautiful,” a meditation on friendship, envy, greed, lust, and love, in which the protagonist screws his friends over while propelling them to dizzying heights, leaving his bag man to ask the eschewed trio at the end, “he ruined your life, so now you have two oscars to your name?”

The next morning this came in over the transom, reminding me that there’s no business like show business, no business.